A Villain In A World Of Heroes
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
The first one seems the most like us right now; the clothes could fit in a medieval/ fantasy-ish setting and are appropriate for our wealth-range, we look innocent because we are, and, when you observe the eyes, you'll find that they have no pupils; This is common in anime characters that happen to be drowning in despair, like we are because everything we love was burned to death.
Just imagine Picture Number One without the facial expression, and it fits us to a tee.
We might grow up to have the demeanor of picture number three, though, after we've had a chance to cope a little, acquired a better sword/Katana, and generally upgraded ourselves from Newbie to something approaching competency, but we'd still look like a very serious kitten to anybody who doesn't know our life story. I'm okay with that.
Just imagine Picture Number One without the facial expression, and it fits us to a tee.
We might grow up to have the demeanor of picture number three, though, after we've had a chance to cope a little, acquired a better sword/Katana, and generally upgraded ourselves from Newbie to something approaching competency, but we'd still look like a very serious kitten to anybody who doesn't know our life story. I'm okay with that.
I agree with you that picture 1 fits us best right now.
Maybe use 1 right now and switch it later after we managed to cope with everything that has been going on?
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
Well, if you want to be specific, right NOW, after battle fits best. (I am leaning towards that one)
Also, probably won't change the picture, unless someone wants to be very helpful and change the new picture to have the same eye color and other things as the old one.
I see, in this case I think that you should use the 2nd one.
We need to think how our character will look once she gets over her trauma. And I think that 2 is better than 3 (The attire fits better than the school uniform 3 wears...)
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Eh, not "Switch it", that has odd connotations. Perhaps more "Grow Up", with some personality character development in the (arguably) wrong direction that will influence how we dress and hold ourselves among other people. Posture is worth a lot in body language, after all, and that's one of the things that's really going to change for us as we become more accustomed to our new position in life. Think Picture 1 acting like Picture 2 or 3.
And if somebody'd change "After the Battle" 's eyes and central ruffly thingy to be green instead of the color of dried blood and stained linen respectively, then it'd look like picture 1 at the current point in the story...
I'm not really counting the clothing for 2 or 3 so much as their actual appearance, because expecting somebody to wear a dark-magical-girl school uniform in a medieval fantasy setting is silly. 2 has a tinge of... Shyness, I think, and 3 is acting more reserved and wary. Ironically, 2 looks more like she's a school-girl than 3 does, if you switched their outfits, and we're growing (Unfortunately quite violently) out of our school-girl phase.
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Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
About that, well, you aren't likely to get over it anytime soon, possibly never. It is pretty much your current motivation for life, if you didn't have a thirst for vengeance, then you likely would have commit suicide by now. You lost literally EVERYTHING that was important to you.
I didn't mean "get over it" as "move on".
What I meant is that right now I think that if there was a hero in front of us we would have jumped at him regardless of our actual chances of beating him. What I meant by "get over it" is to get out of the half shocked status we are probably in right now and start planning things through.
Once we become someone with actual chances of winning (and not someone desperate enough to go to the woods to learn how to fight) the 2nd picture fits more (mainly the expression).
Giving up on revenge was never on my to-do list, all I want is for us to look good while doing it
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
I thought that we just hated that guy who burned everything we loved to death, not heroes in general. I mean, sure, a loathing for heroes should be expected, but not a berserk rage, unless I missed something?
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
You are correct, you hold an unreasonable dislike for heroes in general, but only the one you met has your eternal, undying, hatred.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Idea
We find a Lawful Good Hero, stalk for a bit, "befriend" (As in, pretend to, deep-cover style) him, and then train and become more powerful as either the Token Evil Teammate or The SmartGuy Girl of his Five-man-band. Then, eventually, we bring up why we're so emotionally dead, and point him at the Chaotic Evil "Hero" who burned our father to death. Legendary-Tier Cannon fodder get!
...And maybe we can befriend some of the other people in the group who aren't heroes. Maybe.
We find a Lawful Good Hero, stalk for a bit, "befriend" (As in, pretend to, deep-cover style) him, and then train and become more powerful as either the Token Evil Teammate or The Smart
...And maybe we can befriend some of the other people in the group who aren't heroes. Maybe.
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
2nd picture in the first offering has my vote.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
So, One = 3 votes, Two = 3 votes, and 4 = 1X votes, where X = author.
Consider this, Two voters, where would we get the gold lining on the top of Two's outfit, hmm? [/joke]
Consider this, Two voters, where would we get the gold lining on the top of Two's outfit, hmm? [/joke]
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
I didn't mean "get over it" as "move on".
What I meant is that right now I think that if there was a hero in front of us we would have jumped at him regardless of our actual chances of beating him. What I meant by "get over it" is to get out of the half shocked status we are probably in right now and start planning things through.
Once we become someone with actual chances of winning (and not someone desperate enough to go to the woods to learn how to fight) the 2nd picture fits more (mainly the expression). Emphasis Mine
Giving up on revenge was never on my to-do list, all I want is for us to look good while doing it
The main difference between the Expressions of 2 and 3 is one of... well, I wouldn't really say interpretation, but it fits; It's like they're interpreting the concept of curiosity differently. 2 seems to be asking "What do you want", and 3 is thinking "Fascinating". I'm not a person who usually looks at a piece of art and analyzes it, but, to me, 2 seems unsure and 3 seems confident, and I'd rather we grow to be confident.
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
*Claps hands together* Right, not deciding on a picture right now. Your appearance might change soon, anyways.
Anyways, time to plan! (Because there is no consensus, a few of you said your thoughts on the picture, but not the vote, and this is actually important).
Anyways, time to plan! (Because there is no consensus, a few of you said your thoughts on the picture, but not the vote, and this is actually important).
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
We've got two votes so far, and one of them is Burninate. I'm helping! ^_^
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Khawy
TITANNNNNNNNNNN
- Location
- The United States of America
[X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you canat it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point, bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
Forgot to vote.
Edit: Good point there
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you canat it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point, bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
Forgot to vote.
Edit: Good point there
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Frakir's brother
Goodbye.
- Location
- The Sea of Trees
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
[X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
I added the "smack it on the nose" bit because we are already very close to the wolf (we just hit it on the neck) so it will only take a moment.
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
I added the "smack it on the nose" bit because we are already very close to the wolf (we just hit it on the neck) so it will only take a moment.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Smacking implies using the flat of the blade, and even if we used the edge it still means that we can't really do the "Blade Defense-y thingy" because our blade would be out of position for it. If we have time to smack, we have time to cast while keeping our defenses up.
A smack on the nose won't kill it, only enrage it further ( I'm not going to just come out and say that it'll get us killed for no mechanical advantage even if we succeed, because then people'l get stubborn about it, but yeah) but keeping the sword angled at a point just under it's head might kill it if we fail to cripple it and it leaps.
A smack on the nose won't kill it, only enrage it further ( I'm not going to just come out and say that it'll get us killed for no mechanical advantage even if we succeed, because then people'l get stubborn about it, but yeah) but keeping the sword angled at a point just under it's head might kill it if we fail to cripple it and it leaps.
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Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
*Argument against Nose Smacking; why there is no point, and it will only hurt us because it makes the last part impossible unless we get a good roll*
*Next vote*
X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
Fffuuuuuuuhhhhh- If we get eaten as this wolf-thing's final act, can we restart from the beginning of the battle?
*Next vote*
X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you can at it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
X] Simultaneously with the last point,bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
Fffuuuuuuuhhhhh- If we get eaten as this wolf-thing's final act, can we restart from the beginning of the battle?
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Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
No. Honestly, I am not sure what I will do if you die, maybe just end the quest.
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